Hello guys!First of all, thank you for the Half Life Collection,I think the world needs a fully working HL pack already .I run into some error:I installed the whole package. When I start hl-2.exe, Half Life 2 starts, it's OK. When I start ep2.exe, Episode 2 starts, it's also OK. But when I start ep1.exe, Half Life 2 starts, and not Episode 1 .I wonder if anyone else found this error.How can I start Episode 1?

Noninnyo wrote:Hello guys!First of all, thank you for the Half Life Collection,I think the world needs a fully working HL pack already .I run into some error:I installed the whole package. When I start hl-2.exe, Half Life 2 starts, it's OK. When I start ep2.exe, Episode 2 starts, it's also OK. But when I start ep1.exe, Half Life 2 starts, and not Episode 1 .I wonder if anyone else found this error.How can I start Episode 1?

Thanks in advance!

I may have made a mistake in creating the exe files used, i'll reinstall and double check everthing.-----------There seems to have been a small issue in ep1.exe. https://www.sendspace.com/file/dsfcdureplace it with this copy and the issue should be resolved, sorry guys.file goes into "GAME\hl-2\" folder

stoled wrote:I may have made a mistake in creating the exe files used, i'll reinstall and double check everthing.-----------There seems to have been a small issue in ep1.exe. https://www.sendspace.com/file/dsfcdureplace it with this copy and the issue should be resolved, sorry guys.file goes into "GAME\hl-2\" folder

Thank you for the quick correction and the fixed exe, this time Episode 1 works just fine .The next week I'm gonna play through HL2, EP1 and EP2, and if everything is ok, this will be my Xmas gift .

Hey, awesome reupload! However... the sounds seems more worse if you were to compare it from the previous release. Otherwise, the installation process is faster than the latter.

About the sound issue, some sounds such as RPG's trail or AR2's fire seems muffled, there a lot more that needs fixing too. But this mostly applies on Half-Life 2 sounds (But even then Ep2 and Episodic has muffled sound files too), good thing that the rest considers Hl2 folder as its mother folder because it would be a pain in the neck if I have to edit all of them manually.

Other than that, nice improvement for installation time and unique icons for each executables over the last one! But the setback is the really muffled sounds of HL2, especially if the Audio Quality was on High. I could fix them by finding sound files around the net, but I'd be more comfortable if it was the uploaders themselves who would fix this issue.

-BoxofBacons

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joyer1234 wrote:Which exe is for episode 2.All exe start only half life 2

GAMEDIR\hl-2\ep2.exe

Boxofbacons wrote:Hey, awesome reupload! However... the sounds seems more worse if you were to compare it from the previous release. Otherwise, the installation process is faster than the latter.

About the sound issue, some sounds such as RPG's trail or AR2's fire seems muffled, there a lot more that needs fixing too. But this mostly applies on Half-Life 2 sounds (But even then Ep2 and Episodic has muffled sound files too), good thing that the rest considers Hl2 folder as its mother folder because it would be a pain in the neck if I have to edit all of them manually.

Other than that, nice improvement for installation time and unique icons for each executables over the last one! But the setback is the really muffled sounds of HL2, especially if the Audio Quality was on High. I could fix them by finding sound files around the net, but I'd be more comfortable if it was the uploaders themselves who would fix this issue.

-BoxofBacons

Probably a side effect of the new audio tool rebuilding, not sure, not much I can do aside from releasing the original audio and thats unlikely. I've spent far too much time mucking about with that release as it is.-ya tried changing the ingame audio quality to med/low and seeing if that helps any?

Found a workaround by getting the muffled files replaced with the ones found on the net, it's not easy to replace all in a single click but it works!

Thanks for the rip! You guys have already worked so hard on it. I presume though that it was indeed the Audio unpacker that has caused the issue, seeing as the previous unloader (Which takes 5 hours+ mind you) didn't suffer with this problem.

Or... I could've just used the Source SDK 2013 Singleplayer's vpk files, why did I not notice that earlier on?

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If you're not happy with that then go do some searching around yourself...

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There was originally standalone rips of both Ep1 & Ep2 (with updates) out there but good luck finding those these days! KiNG will probably know who Dopeman is/was, pretty sure he did one of 'em

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Haha! "The One Eyed Dude" - he was actually quite funny, had a few brief comment discussions back & forth with the guy. And don't forget Skullptura. Funny how all these guys were around about the same time - plenty of good games coming out back then

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